Scelioninae

Scelioninae
	Telenomus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Scelionidae
Subfamily:	Scelioninae; Haliday, 1839

Scelioninae is a subfamily of wasps in the family Scelionidae. It is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species in some 160 genera) of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly small (0.5–10 mm), often black, often highly sculptured, usually with geniculate (elbowed) antennae that have a 9- or 10-segmented flagellum. It was formerly classified as a subfamily of the Platygastridae,^[1]^[2] but in 2021 the family Scelionidae was revived, containing the subfamilies Scelioninae, Teleasinae, and Telenominae.^[3]

Biology

They are generally idiobionts, attacking the eggs of many different types of insects, spiders, butterflies (the hackberry emperor, for example)^[4] and many are important in biological control. Several genera are wingless, and a few attack aquatic insect eggs underwater.

References

^ Aguiar et al. 2013
^ Sharkey, M.J. (2007). "Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 309: 13–48.
^ Chen, H., Lahey, Z., Talamas, E. J., Valerio, A. A., Popovici, O. A., Musetti, L., Klompen, H., Polaszek, A., Masner, L., Austin, A. D., Johnson, N. F. (2021). "An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification". Systematic Entomology. 46 (4): 1088–1113. Bibcode:2021SysEn..46.1088C. doi:10.1111/syen.12511. ISSN 1365-3113.
^ Friedlander, Timothy P. (1984). "General Notes: INSECT PARASITES AND PREDATORS OF HACKBERRY BUTTERFLIES (NYMPHALIDAE: ASTEROCAMPA)". Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 38: 60–61.

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[1] Aguiar et al. 2013

[2] Sharkey, M.J. (2007). "Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 309: 13–48.

[3] Chen, H., Lahey, Z., Talamas, E. J., Valerio, A. A., Popovici, O. A., Musetti, L., Klompen, H., Polaszek, A., Masner, L., Austin, A. D., Johnson, N. F. (2021). "An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification". Systematic Entomology. 46 (4): 1088–1113. Bibcode:2021SysEn..46.1088C. doi:10.1111/syen.12511. ISSN 1365-3113.

[4] Friedlander, Timothy P. (1984). "General Notes: INSECT PARASITES AND PREDATORS OF HACKBERRY BUTTERFLIES (NYMPHALIDAE: ASTEROCAMPA)". Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 38: 60–61.

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Telenomus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Scelionidae
Subfamily:	Scelioninae Haliday, 1839